How to Make Simple 6V Emergency Light For Home

Make Emergency Light today. It’s easy, complete, powerful, and long Lasting. Today, I am here to give a complete tutorial on ‘how to make a simple 6v emergency light‘ using a compact fluorescent lamp. This lighting device can be easily equipped with a solar panel, then it can be termed as Solar powered emergency light. You can make this device automatic by using a Light Detecting Resister.

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Parts you need to make an emergency light

1. Rechargeable battery 6V,5A

Rechargeable batteries are used to store electric energy. There are different types of batteries having different capacities. Buy a new sulfuric acid-lead battery having 6V and 5 Ampere capacity. It costs around 5$.

2. Inverter board or Emergency board 6V

Buy this Board HereThe main part of the emergency lamp. Buy a new 6v inverter board or emergency circuit board. There would be two points on the PCB to attach an external transformer. otherwise, you may have to buy an adapter 7.5 V 500 mA. There are other 6 wires on the inverter board for battery,CFL,switch.

3. Step down Transformer 9 volt 500mA/ adapter 7.5 volt 500 mA

Some inverter boards may have the facility to attach a transformer. The Transformer is used to step down the AC voltage. There is a rectifier circuit on the board, which converts alternating current to direct current. Transformer costs around 1$. Some boards may not contain a rectifier circuit or facility to attach a transformer, you need to buy a ac adapter 7.5 V 500mA to charge the battery or You can simply build a rectifier circuit using transformer and diodes.

4. Compact fluorescent lamp 11w

Buy a new 11 W CFL. It costs around 1$.

5. Switch,2pin wire, connecting wire,plastic box

Costs around 1$

The main part of this project is the inverter board. It costs around 1$. There would be six leads. Which component you want to connect, and which polarity and everything would be printed on most of the circuit board.

2-battery

2-CFL

2-switch

Connect those components properly using a soldering iron as shown in the figure. Proper connection makes an electronic equipment long lasting. Then place those components in a plastic box to make it compact.

How to Make Automatic LED Emergency Light

We have discussed “how to make a simple emergency light using CFL at your home”. After publishing that post we realized the amount of potential visitors is very large. We conducted an analysis of the traffic sources and keywords to the article and concluded that most of the people need emergency lights working on light emitting diodes other than compact fluorescent lamps. I think this is because of the high energy efficiency of LEDs. Some people searched for solar powered emergency light.

Here I am going to share a simple emergency light circuit using LED. The 6v battery can be charged by either solar panels or rectifier circuits. This device is based on an LDR (Light Detecting Resistors). An LDR can detect any changes in the intensity of light. In previous emergency circuit, there is a direct method to detect the power failure. Here, an LDR is used to detect the power failure. This automatic emergency circuit will trigger an Series of LED’s when there is a darkness in a room. The LDR will conduct electricity only when there is light in the room. This is the working principle of LDR based automatic Emergency lights.

Things you should have to build an Automatic Emergency light using LED

Battery – 6v – 1

R1,R2 resistor – 10k – 2

R3 resistor – 1K – 10

T1 transistor – BD140 – 1

T2 transistor – BD139 – 1

VR variable resistor – 50K – 1

LDR -1

Devices and other equipments

Soldering iron

Box to enclose the emergency

Copper wire

Circuit of a Automatic Simple Emergency Light Using LED and LDR

How does it work?

An LDR is made in a way that it only conducts electricity if there is enough light in the room. The resistance offered by the LDR against the flow of current is inversely proportional to the intensity of light falls on it. So if there is enough light in a room LDR will continue to conduct current and provides high current to the base of transistor T1. (so T1 is off). Since the base is grounded transistor T2 is also off. If there is a sudden power failure in the room LDR will stop conducting current. At this time transistor T1 becomes forward biased and provides base current to transistor T2. It then turns ON and allows current to flow through the LED.

How to charge the Battery?

How to make a charger for 6v Lead acid battery? Connect the positive terminal of the charger output to the positive pin of the battery. Then connect negative terminal to the negative terminal of the battery.

How to turn this Emergency light into Solar powered Emergency light!

If you are living in an area that not connected to the grid this Solar emergency light can provide enough light for your home. Just buy a 7.5 volt solar panel from the store and connect to the battery. It does not need any separate charger circuit. That’s it. Solar powered

automatic emergency light. Enjoy!!

If any one of your friends is from a region where there is no power supply or lacks continuous power supply, you should suggest this device to your friend. Solar powered emergency light is similar to the ordinary one. But it has a solar panel to capture solar power and convert it and recharge the battery.

Modify the current version with new implementation like1.Touch dimmer circuit,2.Battery over charging protection,3.60 LED's setup,4.Battery low indicator with buzzer.Sir,please consider my suggestion and upload the circuit for the same.

Modify the current version with new implementation like1.Touch dimmer circuit,2.Battery over charging protection,3.60 LED's setup,4.Battery low indicator with buzzer.Sir,please consider my suggestion and upload the circuit for the same.

My friend I have rechargeable light that use FA-886 PCB. Made china company "Premier". Recently I found that wired become old and disconnect with pcb. Now I don't how to solder it again. I got 6v 4.5Ah rechargeable batter and 230v to 6v step down transformer. This all on the above number PCB.

I think you aint talking about automatic switches. Currently there is a switch on the board to switch (on/off) emergency light. But if you are talking about automatic switches, it's not available in this inverter board. But there are,,, thank you..

Dear Aromal,How long will the 11 watt CFL and 5 watt CFL lasts if using 6v 5Ah battery ? Does the inverter board has provision to switch of the power supply to CFL if the battery is discharged or becomes less in power?Regards.

Dear solomon, can you describe what type of project you want? Even I am helpless to send you a large full write Up (usually 50 pages), absolutely I can help you. Let me know more about your situation, type of project, cost etc. Thank you….

I want to first of all commend u on this update. Please i need ur help on this project. I'm still a novice. Can i get a full project with the write up. Both how to do the construction and layout. Thanks

Dear friend, this emergency light circuit has two parts. One rectifies circuit to charge the battery and another mini inverter circuit for creating higher voltage for the CFL. I personally suggest you to avoid CFLs and replace it with LEDs.

Hello , I am thinking of crafting this for my household , your video was not very clear , can you send me the diagram and also a website that can sell these parts to me in Maharashtra. My family used this type of lamps in my childhood.thanks

Thank you for your comment. I made this almost 4 years ago, and now we are in LED era as you know. CFL lamps are becoming history. Then I suggest you, to build an LED emergency light. I have just completed the video of how to make an LED emergency light. I will post that project with complete circuit diagram and video tomorrow or the day after. Subscribe to our newsletter to get the update once we published it. thanks

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Thank you for your comment. Can I know what type of LED bulb are you using? Is it a wall type or table top type? I think you are talking about two side pins that hold bulb on the holder? Am I right? It is possible to fix it using a soldering Iron. But It’s better to buy a new one. I recommend the 2nd option..

dear sirplease help me i am in urgent need of your advice.i tried this emergency light project by doing all the connections exactly as u have given, but still it does notwork at all.i dont understand why, but what so ever i need to submit this by next monday so please help and tell me what changes should i do???!!!